{"id":1179,"date":"2013-01-20T17:51:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T01:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2013-01-23T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T00:29:21","slug":"the-second-terming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/01\/20\/the-second-terming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Second Terming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A guest post from <a title=\"Ace of Spades HQ\" href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\" target=\"_blank\">AoSHQ<\/a> poster &#8220;Taro Tsujimoto&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Turning and turning in the widening gyre<br \/>\nThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;<br \/>\nThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<br \/>\nMere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<br \/>\nThe blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere<br \/>\nThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;<br \/>\nThe best lack all conviction, while the worst<br \/>\nAre full of passionate intensity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Surely some revelation is at hand;<br \/>\nSurely the Second Terming is at hand.<br \/>\nThe Second Terming! Hardly are those words out<br \/>\nWhen a vast image out of Dreams of my Father<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Troubles my sight; somewhere in wards of Chicago<br \/>\nA shape with lion body and the head of a man,<br \/>\nA gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,<br \/>\nIs moving its slow thighs, while all about it<br \/>\nReel shadows of indignant desert birds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The darkness drops again; but now I know<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">That twenty centuries of stony sleep<br \/>\nWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,<br \/>\nAnd what rough beast, its hour come round at last,<br \/>\nSlouches towards Washington to be born?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A guest post from AoSHQ poster &#8220;Taro Tsujimoto&#8221; Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/01\/20\/the-second-terming\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,17],"tags":[15,22,24,3,30],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-post","category-progressives","tag-democrats","tag-fail","tag-leviathan","tag-obama","tag-scoamf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}